Our Client:
Is leader of a new era of audio entertainment and services by delivering the most compelling subscription and ad-supported audio entertainment experience for listeners in the car, at home, and anywhere on the go with connected devices.
Our Client’s vision is to shape the future of audio, where everyone can be effortlessly connected to the voices, stories and music they love wherever they are.
Our Client’s platforms collectively reach approximately 150 million listeners, the largest digital audio audience across paid and free tiers in North America, and deliver music, sports, talk, news, comedy, entertainment and podcasts.
We’re seeking a Senior Quality Engineer who will be responsible for ensuring that our iOS, Android, Web, and Consumer Electronics users have the very best music experience. You’ll have a huge impact on the quality of our Client's growing suite of products and services by acting as a champion of quality engineering. You will be involved in all testing activities throughout the SDLC. You will leverage your knowledge and experience in testing to influence better software design, promote best practices, introduce bug prevention strategies, testability, and other advanced quality concepts across products.
Benefits You Can Expect:
- Competitive salary and annual bonus program
- Healthcare provided to all employees and their eligible family members, paid by the Company
- Life cover (4X base salary)
- Short and long-term disability
- Pension contributions up to 8% of your annual base salary
- Bike2Work scheme
- Tax saver tickets
- Employee Assistance Program
- 25 days annual leave (pro-rated)
- 10 days paid sick
What You will do:
Analyze business requirements, design documentation, and technical specifications to ensure that they are clearly defined, complete, and testable, and develop manual test strategies against them
- Create and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts to verify new and existing software functionality
- Test applications via Black Box, Regression, Release, Stress, and Negative testing methods
- Identify issues/bugs and report to developers and product owners
- Debug defects and be able to differentiate between client and backend issues
- Validate fixes and new features
- Drive the organizational initiative to improve Test Coverage and Automation across the product portfolio.
- Provide metric reporting of test execution, defects, and project status to the executive team.
- Provide mentorship to other team members
- Works with management in determining resource allocation and project scheduling
- Create and facilitate training and ongoing learning plans
- Collaborate with other QE engineers on major initiatives and feature testing
- Attend design and product update meetings representing Quality Engineering team
- Contribute both to the definition and the enforcement of quality assurance processes and procedures based on best practice methodology
- Provide status updates for all QE/TPM/Dev resources during the testing cycle
- Working knowledge of the backend infrastructure, services, APIs, and proactively learn new testing and technology trends that will impact testing of upcoming releases
What you’ll need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or its equivalent preferred or 6+ years of experience in a Quality Engineering or a similar customer-centric technical field
- 3-5 years of experience in leading projects with multiple teams
- 3+ years experience testing mobile (Android, iOS), web client's applications, and or consumer electronics.
- Has working knowledge of various automation frameworks
- Solid knowledge of digital streaming native apps and industry trends
- Experience with tools like Charles, Fiddler, Jenkins, test case management systems, XCode, Android Studio
- Experience in root cause analysis and able to troubleshoot the bugs found
- Knowledge of client-server architecture and able to track the network calls
- Understands key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work
- Project management experience, track record of delivering high quality products while meeting scheduling commitments
- Ability to mentor and coach team members
- Good public speaking and presentation skills, interpersonal skills and ability to interact and work with staff and external partners at all levels
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Detail-oriented and well-organized
- Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Commitment to both internal and external client quality and customer advocacy
- Willingness to take initiative and to follow through on projects
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